Reinhold Nieburh : an American Jeremiah -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Religion and American culture -- The other Zion : American Jews and the meritocratic experiment -- The slave trade and the Jews -- Jews and Blacks in America -- The rebel : C. Vann Woodward -- A tribute to Woodward -- Southern comford : Eugene D. Genovese -- At the heart of slavery -- Slaves in Islam -- A big business -- The triumph of the country -- The labyrinth of slavery -- The significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 -- The benefit of slavery -- Capitalism, abolitionism, and hegemony -- The white world of Frederick Douglass -- Life and death in slavery -- The ends of slavery -- White wives and slave mothers -- Terror in Mississippi -- Constructing race : a reflection -- The culmination of racial polarities and prejudices -- The American dilemma -- The other revolution.